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Jonny69
17-04-2009, 08:20
I'm sat here using my mate's Macbook laptop thing running Windows XP. Nice bit of kit but there's a few things I'm getting irritated at. There's no right click, you have to put two fingers on the mousepad and click one of the three buttons under there. You also can't tap the pad to do a mouse click which makes for annoying internet browsing, especially on forums, and general navigation. Is there any way of enabling those things?

My laptop also has the right side of the mousepad as a page scroll, if there's any way of adding that it would cool, but I think that's not on all laptops.

Ta :)
Feek
17-04-2009, 08:41
I've not really used my Macbook booted to XP so I don't know how functional the trackpad is, but the first thing to check is that the latest and greatest bootcamp drivers are installed from here (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/application_updates/bootcampupdate21forwindowsxp.html). They may *or may not* add the missing features.
Belmit
17-04-2009, 08:53
This is the one gripe pretty much all XP users on Mac have. For some reason Apple just won't implement the functionality for right-click, scroll, or pad-click, even though they work fine on OSX. This is the main reason I haven't booted to XP since first installing it. Of course you could plug a mouse in, but that's not really the point now is it?!
Belmit
17-04-2009, 08:56
Ooh, maybe try this?

http://support.apple.com/downloads/Multi_Touch_Trackpad_Update_for_Windows_XP___Vista

I might give it a go when I get home.
Justsomebloke
17-04-2009, 08:57
*side note*

I'm loving my touchpad on the AcerOne, Love the tap ability so you don't need to use the buttons & the right side of it for auto scrolling is Dreamy. :cool:
Fayshun
19-04-2009, 13:37
I'm loving my touchpad on the AcerOne, Love the tap ability so you don't need to use the buttons & the right side of it for auto scrolling is Dreamy. :cool:

Josh discovered the multitouch zoom/shrink on the touchpad on my EEE904HD. He's 5.
Mark
19-04-2009, 15:00
He's 5.
With skills like that, he should be on TV...

fHvGUXK_-kc

:p
Desmo
19-04-2009, 15:18
Am I the only who hates tap to click on a scroll pad then? Can't stand it and always have to turn it off.
Chuckles
19-04-2009, 15:52
Am I the only who hates tap to click on a scroll pad then? Can't stand it and always have to turn it off.

Ditto. I turned that off and use 2 fingers on the touchpad and button to right click.
LeperousDust
19-04-2009, 17:36
Love tapping to click, and double tapping to drag, its instinctive. But you have to get very fine tuned with your own trackpad, i hate using other peoples which have ever so slightly different settings...
Feek
19-04-2009, 17:45
I was never a fan of tapping to click but the trackpad on my laptop works really well with the whole pad being the button. It's just instinctive now and I don't even notice that there's no separate button(s)!
Jonny69
19-04-2009, 19:12
Ooh, maybe try this?

http://support.apple.com/downloads/Multi_Touch_Trackpad_Update_for_Windows_XP___Vista

I might give it a go when I get home.
Cool, sent this on to my frustrated friend who smells like apples.